Quantum Utilities

As more and more low-level functions migrate to the quantum space, such as dot products and distance estimation between vectors, they comprise a category we (so far) simply refer to as “utility” functions

qcware.qutils.qdot(*args, **kwargs)

Outputs the dot product of two arrays; quantum analogue of::

numpy.dot

Cases (following numpy.dot):

x is 1d, y is 1d; performs vector - vector multiplication. Returns float. x is 2d, y is 1d; performs matrix - vector multiplication. Returns 1d array. x is 1d, y is 2d; performs vector - matrix multiplication. Returns 1d array. x is 2d, y is 2d; performs matrix - matrix multiplication. Returns 2d array.

Arguments:

Parameters

• x (Union[float, numpy.ndarray]) – 1d or 2d array

• y (Union[float, numpy.ndarray]) – 1d or 2d array

• circuit (quasar.Circuit) – Circuit to use for evaluation (None to implicitly create circuit), defaults to None

• loader_mode (str) – , defaults to parallel

• circuit_mode (str) – , defaults to sequential

• backend (str) – , defaults to qcware/cpu_simulator

• num_measurements (int) – , defaults to None

Returns

float, 1d array, or 2d array: dot product

Return type

Union[float, numpy.ndarray]

qcware.qutils.distance_estimation(*args, **kwargs)

Outputs the distance between input vectors; quantum analogue of::

numpy.linalg.norm(X - Y)**2

Cases (following numpy.dot):

x is 1d, y is 1d; performs vector - vector multiplication. Returns float. x is 2d, y is 1d; performs matrix - vector multiplication. Returns 1d array. x is 1d, y is 2d; performs vector - matrix multiplication. Returns 1d array. x is 2d, y is 2d; performs matrix - matrix multiplication. Returns 2d array.

Arguments:

Parameters

• x (Union[float, numpy.ndarray]) – 1d or 2d array

• y (Union[float, numpy.ndarray]) – 1d or 2d array

• circuit (quasar.Circuit) – Circuit to use for evaluation (None to implicitly create circuit), defaults to None

• loader_mode (str) – , defaults to parallel

• circuit_mode (str) – , defaults to sequential

• backend (str) – , defaults to qcware/cpu_simulator

• num_measurements (int) – , defaults to None

Returns

float, 1d array, or 2d array: distance estimation

Return type

Union[float, numpy.ndarray]